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Greetings and salutations everyone. It's rich
Will Simak into Fantasy Baseball Live. Today

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is the twenty first of April.
It's about nine o'clock in the morning and

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I'm here in beautiful oceanlle Beach,
North Carolina. This is a setup and

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it is seventy seven degrees. I
just finished having breakfast on the front porch.

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Tim, how's it going out there
where you are? Absolutely, it's

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almost beyond words. It's twenty about
twenty five degrees. We got three inches

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of snow last night, blowing snow. Road shut down and I'm just looking

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outside and there are more flurries falling. Yeah, it's uh. The only

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good thing is it won't take long
to melt. I'm sure by July things

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will be just perfect. So what's
the latest it's snowed there? I've seen

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snow in every month of the year
except for July. Wow, August,

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August, I've seen I've seen snow, yeah around I think it was around

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the twentieth of August. It was
a number of years ago, and I

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remember it real clear because I was
living in North Bay at the time.

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Went up to visit my girlfriend who
was living north of about ninety miles north

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and it took me four hours to
go to ninety miles on the way back

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for the snow in the middle of
August. Love, ladies, That's that

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is unbelievable, Timmy. That's when
you you really have to start taking stock

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of what the hell you're doing with
your life when it's snowing in the middle

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of the middle of August. Well, yeah, either that or substance abuse,

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exactly, exactly, lots of substance. How's your baseball week been,

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how your team's doing. Uh,
I'm middling. It wasn't a really great

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week, but I'm dealing with just
a slew of injuries and I'm a little

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bummed. I'm a little bummed about
what I saw yesterday. Well, actually

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it started Monday and it continued into
last night. And I think we got

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a real problem with Logano hobby and
it's sad. It really is. Oh

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that's the shoulder issue. Yeah,
yeah, it looks Yeah Monday, Monday

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looked like it was the first time
he heard it, and I was a

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little concerned then, But after watching
what happened last night, I you know,

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we haven't got a definitive answer except
from the Facebook doctor. So Okay,

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at this point in time, that's
funny. What are the Facebook doctors

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saying, well, a couple of
them rror actually saying things that makes sense.

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And they're looking at what do they
call it a sub Yeah, shoulder

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separation. Yeah there, And you
know I looked at it at the slow

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motion and yeah, there's as much
as I don't want to say it,

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I think we've got a situation that
could potentially mirror what Fernando Tatis has gone

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through the past couple of years.
And I hope that's not the case,

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I really do, but I'm concerned, very very concerned. So if his

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shoulder keeps popping out, he's got
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base. That's not good. Well, it's it's it's the left arm.

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But again it's the left arm.
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last night looking at him down on
for he was in serious pain. Yeah,

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something at some point in time will
have to be done to correct that.

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It's a shame because he's off to
a great start. Yeah, but

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I mean he could rest it and
you know, maybe just just heal that

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up and get a fix in the
offseason, because if it's not his throwing

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arm. He shouldn't affect his hitting. I wouldn't think so, because that's

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that's his uh not his lead arm
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mean, yeah, he's put it
out twice hitting in the past. Oh

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okay, or play throw it?
So yeah, well, you know what,

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the art of bunding may not be
lost. That is true. That

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is true. I've spent my I
spent my entire week to me on my

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Patreon site. It went live on
Monday or Tuesday, and we've got people

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actively over there participating. Let me
just give you a sense for what I

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have put out. I've been a
bit of a crazy man this week,

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just trying to get stuff out.
So obviously I did the the larger Prospect

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Prospect of the Week that came out. I put it out for free for

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the first four guys, and then
the Patreon people got nineteen. I also

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wrote up a little thing on that. I did two webinars or webcast Timmy

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on how to use Baseball Savant,
and I will continue to do that.

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Yeah. So I looked at I
looked at a bunch of players. I

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started off with what's wrong? If
there's anything wrong with Gunner Henderson sitting one

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sixty seven and that's not a good
start. So with one home run on

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one stolen base, yes, I
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lots and lots and lots of strikeouts, so what's going on there? So

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I broke that down, and then
I went through Taj Bradley and what he's

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doing. And then I started asking
for a request and Justin Hughes asked for

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Bryson Stott, Brandon Marsh, Cody
Bellinger's. I did those guys, and

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then I've got a whole bunch of
other ones that people want me to do,

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so I'll be doing that, just
breaking down looking at the data,

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which is good. I did a
scouting trip to see Katee Horton Christian Hernandez

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with the Cubs. Yeah part and
they look good, No, man,

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I encourage. I'm going to go
out and read about it and you'll get

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a chance to see my observations and
thoughts and comments I had from others,

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other scouts that were there. A
lot of scouts there looking at other guys

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as well, which I found to
be pretty interesting. And then I did

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a video because I'm going to be
doing some videos team. I'm not exactly

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sure what I'm going to do.
And I did a video of my house's

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a little five minute like where do
I live? So just to give a

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sense for, uh, you know, what everything looks like here. So

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it was kind of fun. So
I'll be doing some videocast this weekend.

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I'll be working on a top one
twenty five, one fifty and updated that

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so taking the top one hundred and
expanding it. And then I'm going to

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start on my Dynasty League rankings.
So that's that's going to be a lot

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of work. Yeah, it sounds
like a lot of fun though, and

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I'm glad you're off to a strong
start. So I need your help though.

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I Yeah, Well you know what
you could do. You could give

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me a complake to this pat Patriot
say yeah, I out there, I'm

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going to do that. I have
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how to do that. They so
I'll probably pay for it and they give

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you access. We'll have to figure
that out, timmy. I I I

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I'd love to hang out there and
help out in any way that I possibly

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can. Well, you can help
out the day by answering this question,

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because it's over my day. So
Chris, I think I think it's over

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mind, Okay. Chris Caulfield,
who is our buddy from from the UK,

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from London, but I don't know
if he lives in London or from

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England. Yeah, yeah, you've
done like dinner. That's right, all

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right, So here it is evening. Actually I have a cue about starting

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pitching and the to my eyes seemingly
odd number of super inflated ear as this

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year. It feels like a few
more pictures this season have stumbled out of

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the blocks in a major way.
Is it just a slightly larger at the

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far end of expected distribution or is
something up Timmy? How do you?

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I mean, I think we should
look at the data I brought up the

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NFBC rankings. Yes, I've got
them up up as well, so we'll

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ignore Shoeyotana was off to a phenomenal
year and everything. So. Corman Burns

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has been okay. He was the
second pitcher, taking Garret Colesman money.

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Seni Alcantaro not good, Spencer Schreider
very good, yes, Jacob deGrom very

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good, though hopefully he's not hurt. Aaron Nola not good, right,

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Brandon Woodruff talk about injury A little
concerning there, was good before, very

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good before he got injured. Not
concerning Shay McClanahan has been very good.

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Justin Verlander hasn't pitched yet. That's
not good. Max Scherzer, what's going

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He's on vacation. May made we
talk about Max Scherzer for a moment.

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He yeah, I think we should. At thirty nine years old, he

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needs to grow up. I mean, I get it, he's Max Scherzer.

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He's a bad boy and all that. There are rules out there and

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he needs to stop pitching a fit
on all of them and just get with

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the program. Well, at the
same point in time, Major League Baseball

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needs to enforce their rules consistently.
Domingo her Man ring a bill, Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, Well wait a
minute. They told Domingo Herman to

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go wash his hands. They then
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He apparently somebody saw him washing his
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So yeah, that was Yeah.
I guess I agree with your statement.

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But at the same point in time, I think there's two sides to

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that coin. And I also think
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zealous umpire because only one of them. Phil Cuzzy has done anything about this

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problem. Now, is it a
problem with Phil Cuzzy or is it a

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problem with them hiring crew as a
whole or an interpretation of the Major League

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Baseball rules. So I get,
I get where shows are coming from.

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But he's not doing He's not gonna
win this bad He's not gonna win and

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you're never gonna win these battles,
Timmy, it's go ask Trevor Bauer.

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I mean, it's it's uh.
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point, you gotta get with the
program. I mean, stop taking your

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belts off when you're doing you know, all of those statements, Timmy,

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it's it's what's happening. You've got
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Well, you know, you know, if you want to be if you

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want to be outspoken, I salute
you. But there's a price to be

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paid for it. The Major League
Baseball will make him pay. Yep.

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They have no reason not to,
right, that's right anyway, So back

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down, dylet's see's very good,
yes, Shane Bieber very good? Good?

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Yeah, Zach Wheeler not not so
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a Julio Arius very good, yes, Carlos Rodon hasn't pitched yet, not

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good. Louis Castile extremely good,
Christian Hove You're good, not great good,

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Kevin Gossman good, very good for
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up with the last start, but
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Max Free good but injured, Zach
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First two were horrible. All right, let's all right, so it's but

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it's a three twenty ear a.
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call that an inflated Going back to
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inflated eara. You Darvish, I
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Numbers are solid. He hasn't won
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Valdez one eighty ear a. I
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you want? So let's just do
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played yet, he's the next guy. Robbie Ray got hurt, hasn't played.

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George Kirby, Okay, let's see, it's like a mid three three

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seventy eight. That's okay. I
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I think Hunter Green has been good. He might have an overinflated ear

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A four twenty four. I mean
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mistressed to McKenzie who hasn't pitched,
and Logan Gilbert's been okay, and Logan

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Webb has been horrible, Cordess and
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Oh yeah, I just stopped there. But but I guess at my point

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it I guess it depends on who
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I mean it's because I have a
number of these guys have an alecman oma

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an FBC team Timmy, i'man like
in last place in the era, and

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it's it's because of him. Well, I think I think where has happened

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is a combination of things. Uh. I think I think the the enforcement

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on the rule with regards to the
junk on your hands at checking it's had

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a minor bearing on it. Um. I think the pitch clock has also

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had a minor bearing on things.
Okay, because there's been change, and

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anytime there's change, it can be
subject to problems. Okay for people who

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have who do have to make a
significant change. But I think my biggest

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concern when I look at pitching.
Is weather really it's been a crappy April.

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It's snowing outside and Fort Francis it
shouldn't be snowing outside. We've seen

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weather up and down the East Coast
that has been horrible. And I think

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the combination of all of the above
with the fact that a lot of pictures

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just simply haven't pitched okay thus far
this year, it's just the overall package.

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Do I think we have to be
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of the problems is you look at
the first round and we have one,

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two, three, four. We
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are under performing. Okay, so
your odds are fifty fifty, right,

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you got one of those guys.
All you have to do is add into

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the next round Alex manoah or Max
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a sudden you're one two is shot. You drafted the right guy in the

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first round. Odds are good.
You've got as number two and three is

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you've got Robbie ray A, Joe
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logan web. You know, when
you look at how pitching is paired up

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through the first five rounds. If
you managed to escape some sort of problems

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with your starting pitching early on,
you're one of the luckiest people on the

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planet. And that's what it boils
down to, because the odds of getting

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your numbers one, two, and
three starting pitchers two have all worked out

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are infinitely small, aren't they When
you look at as you go through the

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tiers of pitching. Yeah, you're
gonna you're gonna get stuck. You're to

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get hammered. And as a result, yeah, I'm in one league,

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I'm sitting in fifth and whip with
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that's a one twenty five is not
good. Fifth is, but one

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twenty five isn't. So I think
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paying. We're all paying the paying
a price for poor pitching. And the

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reason it's it's coming to the four
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in the league. It's everybody's dealing
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So I have a slightly different view. I think that, well, I'm

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gonna I'm gonna tap into rule changes
because that's something that you brought up.

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I think that Rob Manford's goal of
increasing offense has worked. Um, and

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I think you're seeing the net effect
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blow up. Three four starts,
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one up to the bad weather.
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I still think he's a good picture. But it looks like this top

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the top top guys you know are
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low end, number ones high and
number two is Timmy. You're getting

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smacked around and it could be the
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readjust our thinking is back to where
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ago when one twenty five whip was
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sorry, yeah, lost me there
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know, I don't trust Rob Manfred. What baseball is he throwing out there

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right now? Yeah? He's it's
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we don't know, you know.
All we know is Eric Cole's been money,

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Spencer Spider has been pretty money,
and Jacob deGrom's I mean so there's

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been a handful of guys that have
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just better than these other pictures.
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who's good, maybe not great,
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a little bit. Yeah, I
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issue with the mechanics, which it
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for a guy who started his first
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in the AL so I've opening last
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yeah, it's you know, I
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saw last year, potentially growth from
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that. And you know, you
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you know he said out of the
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you know what I mean. They
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know, you look through there's probably
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pitched or pitched in a limited basis. That's that's tough. Yeah, let

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me let me do what I've been
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get back, and I will let
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on the Patreon site, and I
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savant. See what we can see
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quick break. Will we be rought
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alec Manoah. Timmy still an eighty
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He still looks menacing. Would you
not agree? Uh? The attitude still,

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the size, it all still works. I'm looking at his scorecard,

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Timmy. It is mostly blue and
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he's getting balls, are getting hit
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He's walking too many guys. The
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Spen is still good. So that
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it's bad. But his fastball velocity
and suffer. Let's let's dig down a

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little bit deeper here. Yet.
Exit velocity last year was eighty seven point

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five. This year it's eighty nine
point eight. Not good. His hard

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hit rates were some of the best
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it's gone up to below average.
I'm looking at that so and the

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problem is his walks. He's walking
everybody. There's there's this problem, a

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fifteen point five percent walk rate.
And I take a look at his scattered

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charts to him. Yeah, his
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that's the one he throws the most, twenty nine point four. He's not

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throwing it for strikes. His changeup
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He's not throwing any of his changeups
for strikes at all. And his fastball

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is sitting in the heart of the
plate. So there you go, Tim,

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he's not throwing strikes and his fastball
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middle of the plate and do it. So guys mechanics, I would say,

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well, let's take a look here. The slider is getting hit at

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a three fifty three clip. It's
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on a twenty one eighty two.
Last year, this slider had a twenty

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two sixteen, so it's gone down
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still a good fastball with good spin. You know, it's interesting. I'm

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looking at this and he's changed his
pitch mix around. He threw his fast

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ball a lot more, threw his
fastball thirty six percent of the time.

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Last year, he's only throwing at
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He's still on a lot more.
It's still on a lot more sliders and

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sinkers than he has fastballs this year
significantly. Well, and if the slider

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isn't sliding and the sinker ain't sinking, it's tea of time, isn't it.

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But why did that happen? Well? First, first, I mean

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why did he change his pitch mix? So first that's the first question,

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Like with all the success, why
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his slider, which last year was
money for him, it doesn't spend all

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that Well, we have to go
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look at how much it moves here. So going down last year his slider,

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Oh yeah, his slider is great
horizontal movement. It's almost one of

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those sweepers Timmy, which is a
new sexy pitch that Baseball Savant came up.

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That's the old who was the reliever
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that he was fairly good for a
couple of years that had that's frisbee slider.

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Oh ju, probably a side armor
and it wasn't Yeah, it was

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kind of a slide anyway, So
they gave it a name, and it's

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called a sweeper. Anything that's like
a slider, slash curveball that really has

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a lot of horizontal movement. They're
they're characterizing that as a sweeper. And

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of course vertical you mean no,
no, it's actually horizontal. So that's

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okay, bigger vertical across his own
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down, Horizontal is sideways. Okay, Well, I have a real serious

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problem this morning. I need a
coffee exactly. So anyway, so so

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he's got his his Oh here here
we go, Timmy his he had a

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six inch horizontal movement greater than league
average last year, and this year with

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that slider it's three point eight,
so he is not in. In twenty

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twenty one it was seven point seven. So this is a guy that got

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a tremendous amount of movement on his
slider. This year not so much.

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So his slider has turned a lot
more ordinary. And the fact that doesn't

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have a lot of spin on it
to begin with, he needs he needs

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that horizontal movement on it. So
he's got to try to find that feel

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for the for the slider sets pitch
problem one and then two. His fastball

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velocity is his fastball sitting in the
heart of the plate, and then his

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change up. He's not throwing for
strikes, so he's got a number of

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problems. I would think they're mostly
mechanical as opposed because you don't you don't

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see a big drop in velocity.
You don't see a big drop and spin.

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So yeah, it was like a
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Yeah, that there's a problem.
There's there. It is a point nine

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mile part hour drop on the four
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mean that doesn't sound like a lot, but I mean it is almost a

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mile per hour or so. It's
a little bit of dropping. It could

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be the cold weather. We'd have
to take a look at the games he's

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pitched in, but it probably is
mechanical. But I'd like to see that

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four seamer up a little bit.
And his sinker also ninety two seven this

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year, last year ninety three three, so it's also down. Yeah.

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I I think when you when you
start looking going back to the question as

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a whole, I think it all
boils back to something that you know,

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we've been saying for a long period
of time. You can never have enough

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starting pitching, can you as good
as it looked this spring, as you

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know, and it did look good, when you start looking at weather,

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injuries, etcetera, etcetera, you
simply can't have enough starting pitching. You

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know. It's that's that's our game, isn't it the game itself? But

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alec manoah, do I start him? I do not. In fact,

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they rested him this week in my
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I would not throw him out there
because I'm looking at that scattered chart

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on his pitches. To him me, he can't throw strikes. That's a

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real, real problem, and his
slider is not it's not moving as much

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as it did in the past,
and his velosophy is a little down.

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So I'd rather miss a good start
then where he finally fixes it, then

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actually take on three or four more
bad starts, because what we're looking at

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with the scatter charts, Sammy,
he's gonna get hit hard by anybody,

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but I don't know the Oakland A's
yeah, so yeah, yeah, you're

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gonna need a medio girl offense to
start him right now. I agree,

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the problem being is that you know
the Jays are gonna wheel him out there.

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Yeah, and you best got to
have a relief pitcher, okay,

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with high strake oats sitting on your
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And yeah, a goes back to
my love or lust for Scott Shields

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back in the day. You know, if you can find, like I

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know right now, a bray you
in Houston, Okay, he's not anywhere

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near a save, but he's throwing
strikes and get generating strikeodes. I think

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what fantasy players have to do is
start looking at some of those middle relievers,

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Michael King maybe in New York.
Look, look look at some middle

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relievers and have them on your bench
so you can insert them for the Alex

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minoahs and the pictures that you're struggling, because you don't want to start going

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to the waiver wire and throwing out
number six seven starters because you're gonna get

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the same result. Yeah, for
the most part, throwing out Alex Minoa,

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you're just gonna dig yourself a whole
that could be insurmountable at some point.

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So it's best just to hold your
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of constant. Maybe move down a
little bit as opposed to you know,

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let me put it all on red
and see if I can you know,

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gamble here and bring it down.
That usually doesn't end well for people.

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No, I've got several leagues right
now where I am sitting last. Toad

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is one, I'm sitting third from
the bottom, and strike oats, I'm

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sitting last in wins, first in
EIRA, first in Whip. And the

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problem being is I've got Tristan McKenzie, Luis Severino, Rangers, Squarez and

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somebody else all out right now.
And what I'm doing is I'm putting into

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my lineup relief pictures with high strikeo
race to try and at least stay in

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the game until I get some of
my walking wounded back. So at least

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I'm protecting my ERA and Whip and
at some point in time, if I

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have to throw a slew of number
six seven starters out there, okay,

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to try and get wins, I
should have enough cushion in ERA and Whip

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that I can absorb some of it. Yep, if that makes sense.

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It's a tough game. Yeah,
I've got one league. Let me give

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you another anecdote here. I have
one league to me where I was off.

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I think at the beginning of last
week, I had like a six

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and a half eara was just awful. That's where I had the likes of

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Corbyn Burns who were just blowing up, and Eddie Cabrera and those kind of

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guys. And I decided just to
go ahead and put in relievers. So

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I threw in Chapman, Diaz men
As, you got hurt Kemberroll robertson,

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all of those guys. I had
five relievers going, and now my ear

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a is sitting at four one to
eight, and I've gone from second to

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last to eighth. And just listen
to these eras, Timmy, in this

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league I got a four point one
eight somebody else with a four point one

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eight four two seven four two eight
four five five, four fifty seven,

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four fifty eight, four sixty six, forty five and five forty five,

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Timmy, this is these are earas
in these leagues. This is crazy.

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Well, yeah, I can remember
when anything over a four arra would pretty

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well get your last, but Whip
one twenty was a Greg whip. And

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one of my leagues I'm sitting with
one twenty four and I got four points

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in whips and whip. Yeah.
So again, adjusting to what it appears

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to be a new norm this year
is crucial in your pitching evaluation. And

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maybe you know, with everything that's
going on in the game, maybe a

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one thirty whip for eight points isn't
no lie bed Yep. It's a point

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to generates at the end of the
day, right, that not the specific

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number, right. Yeah. And
I think in the recissory league, I

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agree with Tim just you know,
just tread water. It's okay to tread

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water for you know, a few
weeks until you get your guys back in

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that league. To me, I
got Musgrove coming back, So I've got

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some other guys that I can count
on that are coming off the injury list

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that are going to help me.
And I just I'm not going to throw

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out, you know, a picture
going up against Houston Ryan Nelson, who

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I like, but I'm not going
to throw them up against Houston. I'll

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throw them up against Miami, but
not Houston. Yeah. Well, exactly,

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because you know, you can you
can sit back and you know,

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one of the prime examples wouldn't go
back to last week's waiver imect it recommended

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picking a bran bellow. I also
recommended not starting him, and he got

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He got smacked around big time in
his first start, and I was more

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concerned about the second. You know, hey, if you want to take

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a chance on some of these young
pictures, I don't. I don't have

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any problems with that, but you
know your parameters. If you're starting a

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guy against a hot hitting team on
the road, at home wherever, in

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his first start, you're you're asking
for trouble and seventy five percent of the

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time, eighty percent of the time
you're going to reap exactly what is So

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it's not good, yea. So
back on to Alecmano a final thing and

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then we'll take another break That's the
kind of breakdown I'm doing doing, Timmy.

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It's it's a video cast. I'm
giving people like how to look at

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baseball savant and how to then how
to try to make conclusions on that,

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and just as a the Gunner Henderson
and one of the things because somebody told

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me I need to chill lax and
Gunner Henderson he's going to be fine.

404
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.079
He probably will be, Timmy.
But here's the problem. He has one

405
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.920
of the highest strikeout rates in the
league and one of the highest walk rates

406
00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:18.519
in the league. That's highly unusual. That's Ian happ Ish, that's Caven

407
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:25.240
Bijio isc that's the those when yeah
Schober, Yeah, Now, I don't

408
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:32.000
think Gunner Henderson has got eighty great
power like Schreber does. But you got

409
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.640
to be careful with you guys that
are really passive at the plate, and

410
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:40.880
Shober is not, but the other
two are. Caven Bijo doesn't look is

411
00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:42.160
he on a major league team?
Now, I didn't even know. And

412
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:48.599
Ian Happ is a fine player,
Timmy, But I think we have more

413
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.400
expectations of Gunner Henderson than Ian Happ. But what's what happens when you get

414
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.480
passive and you sit there and you
look, and then you look, dig,

415
00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.880
dig deeper in and find out what
he's doing on as you know,

416
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.000
I want zero zero accounts. You
know, the first two pitches and of

417
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:06.759
your son, you look and he's
never swinging the poll and that's a problem.

418
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.920
So yeah, pitchers know that,
and you get down zero and two

419
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:15.759
and you're dead. So so that's
the kind of so just because the guy

420
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:19.200
is walking a lot at a twenty
two percent rate. That's actually a red

421
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.880
flag. Unless you're Schober. You
know, that's a big red flag.

422
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:25.119
So everybody, when you're looking at
this kind of stuff, go, I'd

423
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:30.759
rather have a like a guy with
a ten percent walk rate and you know,

424
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:34.440
a fifteen percent strikeout rate than a
twenty two percent walk rate and a

425
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.920
thirty percent striker. Right, that's
not what you want, No, Timmy,

426
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.319
Let's take a break, get back, and great stuff. Again.

427
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:46.000
I appreciate that because one of your
questions later on, Yeah, you answered

428
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:50.279
it for me. Oh okay,
all right, let's take a break,

429
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:52.839
Timmy, and get back and uh, we've got nine other questions to go

430
00:32:52.960 --> 00:33:08.119
thirty minutes. I drafted Scott Barlow
and my NFBC team. I was pretty

431
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:13.839
happy about that selection. I debated
him or David Bendner. Obviously I picked

432
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:16.960
the wrong guy. And then when
a roll As Chapman got hired by the

433
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:22.759
Kansas City Royals, I wasn't worried
because Chapman was terrible and Barlow was good

434
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:27.960
last year and Chapman he's done.
I mean, look, he was awful,

435
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:32.319
Timmy. He has been absolutely,
arguably the best reliever in the game

436
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:36.920
so far. He's been unhitable,
and Scott Barlow, I don't know if

437
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.160
he's feeling the heat. I don't
know what's going on there, but he

438
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:43.480
looks terrible. When do we gonna
see that switch? I mean, it

439
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:49.920
seems inevitable. Well, I sent
you an updated closure report on what Tuesday

440
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.240
or Wednesday? And what order did
I have them in? You had Chapman

441
00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:59.880
first, I did, and I
think that's exactly where it sits right now,

442
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.119
you know, heading into the season. I know a lot of people

443
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:07.239
thought I was crazy, but my
rationelle was Chapman's on a one year deal.

444
00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:10.000
They're gonna have to move them,
They're gonna have to give them opportunities.

445
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:15.000
Well, Scott Barlow is sort of
forcing that situation, as is the

446
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:19.920
Roldest Chapman. As you said that
Chapman's been unhittable. You know, they

447
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:23.320
don't have to do much to extract
value from a rolldest Chapman right now,

448
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:28.559
do they. He's gonna get an
opportunity simply because he's pitching better, and

449
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:34.079
he's pitching really good. So hey, if Chapman's still sitting out there in

450
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:38.440
any of your leagues, get him
a roster. As I absolutely understood your

451
00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:42.400
logic and agree with your logic.
I just didn't think it would happen.

452
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:45.400
I mean, I think, like
last year, yeah, Chapman, I

453
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:51.280
had Chapman and two Dynasty leagues.
Unfortunately didn't drop them. I don't know

454
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:53.960
why, just because it's probably a
rolldist Chapman. I'm like, maybe I

455
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:58.679
just should hold on to him.
I glad I did. But he was

456
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:04.840
brutal, absolutely brutal last year.
Yeah, he was. I think there's

457
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:08.079
also some motivation here too. I
don't think a Rolla's Chapman's ready to hang

458
00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:13.559
it up, clearly not. No, last year it looked like he was.

459
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:16.199
Yeah, I think there's some motivation
involved in there. But you got

460
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:21.519
to get a Rolla's Chapman active and
you got to get him going. Good.

461
00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:24.159
Good news. Daniel Bard is back. He's pitching pitch Wallda's first out,

462
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:29.960
and he suffered from some anxiety Timmy, which is not is a very

463
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:34.119
serious issue and one that we've talked
about. I'm assuming he's going to be

464
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:38.119
your closer here very soon. Yeah. I think what the Rockies will do

465
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:44.119
is they'll work him back in slowly. Okay, Pierce Johnson's pitch very well

466
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:47.280
Okay, he's gotten the job done, so it's not like there's an immediate

467
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:52.320
rush to throw Bart into the ninth
inning in his face. That the Rockies

468
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:55.760
are playing for what twenty seventh overall, something along those lines. So I

469
00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:00.480
think what you'll see is you'll see
Bard, you know, hey, over

470
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:04.920
the next week, week and have
two weeks. He'll slowly slide back into

471
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.320
the role and Derce Johnson will be
a setup guy. And the way we

472
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:14.519
go. I saw a post by
you somewhere must have a Facebook. You

473
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:21.159
suggested that the A's better watch out
because the Rockies are catching up or something

474
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:27.320
like that as the worst team in
baseball, which is true. But here's

475
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.320
here's the here's the difference. The
A's want to be terrible. They have

476
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:37.440
they're not paying anybody. The Rockies
are timmy there there there. You could

477
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:43.400
argue they're worse than the A's because
they've got quote unquote better players. Well

478
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:46.239
yeah, but you could also argue
the situation the A's are end is because

479
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:52.400
they're billionaire owner. One's a free
stadium right the bud Sea League Handbook somewhere,

480
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.880
Jeffrey Laurie is sitting there smiling,
okay, and what's happening in Oakland

481
00:36:57.199 --> 00:37:00.519
is wrong, and for Major League
Baseball to support or it is equally wrong.

482
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.559
Yeah. I get it. For
another day, Yeah, I mean,

483
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.119
I get it. We'll talk about
that on Sunday, but you know,

484
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:13.760
I will say maybe he was disingenuous, but I mean they've been talking

485
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:20.159
with the Oakland City Council and I
think the sand the San Jose a little

486
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:23.239
bit further down the peninsula to try
to get a new stadium built in that

487
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:28.159
He's just not gotten any traction.
So he moved. Well, hey,

488
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.760
Vegas is going to give him.
It looks like with half a billion dollars

489
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:36.760
towards the stadium. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which I think is criminal.

490
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:38.800
Which I think is criminal in the
first place. I don't think billionaire

491
00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:45.239
owners of billion a billion dollars franchises
should get any public money. But that's

492
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.480
just me. So let me give
you a personal anecdote. So I grew

493
00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:52.440
up in Baltimore, Maryland. I
was there. I think I was twenty

494
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:57.119
or so when the Colts left and
the dead of the night, well I'm

495
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:00.039
not dead, and I'm probably five
o'clock in the morning. This famous picture

496
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:06.280
of the Mayflower moving vans going out
and it's snow and taking all the equipment.

497
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:10.320
And then a few hours later Bob
Ersey, who owned the Colts at

498
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:15.119
the time, they're in Indianapolis,
going we're here, we've moved, and

499
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:20.840
everybody in Baltimore going, that's criminal. You can't do that. And Timmy,

500
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:27.920
I lived for years with nobody going
to the games the Baltimore area refusing

501
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:30.119
to build a new stadium and all
that, and he said, well,

502
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:31.719
screw it, I'll go somewhere else
and do it. And he did.

503
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:37.760
And I mean, and it's that
kind of stuff in sports happens, you

504
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.480
know, not a lot, but
it happens. Yeah. I guess my

505
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:46.320
problem is, hey, you are
replaced to play with your toys, pay

506
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:52.559
for it. I don't take the
public should be Oh yeah, that's definitely

507
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:57.039
a conversation for a different That's absolutely
a conversation for different because you're absolutely I

508
00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:00.280
mean, that's yeah, you're absolutely
right. Should it be government funded these

509
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:05.360
stadiums or should the rich owners do
it? And I actually think it should

510
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:08.119
be the rich owners. But the
rich owners don't have to because somebody will

511
00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:14.679
because somebody stupid have Yeah, what
brings me back to my love for Jeffrey

512
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:17.719
Lauria, which again is a topic
for another day. Right, there was

513
00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:23.599
there was something recent where I forgot
oh I think it was Oh it was

514
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:29.960
Amazon, basically was I think it
was Amazon. One of the big corporations

515
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.639
was was going around saying, hey, we're going to move to this third

516
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:37.559
tier city, right, and the
people were all excited. They were off

517
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:40.960
on them all kinds of incentives and
where they were currently at. They go,

518
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:44.920
okay, well, we'll just give
you what you want and then they

519
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.079
forked over the money and all of
a sudden, the other the other city

520
00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.400
that was like, hey, look
at us, We're gonna get Amazon,

521
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:54.440
or we're gonna have all this employment. It's all gonna be good. The

522
00:39:54.599 --> 00:39:58.719
rug got pulled out for a moment. You know, they were never gonna

523
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:00.719
move, Tommy. They didn't want
to move out of the big cities.

524
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.400
And you see that kind of stuff
happen all the time in business. Yeah,

525
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:09.880
the game and the business of the
game are two very different things.

526
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:14.800
Yeah, very much so. And
I feel bad for the Oakland Athletic fans.

527
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:16.599
The little ones are there, But
Timmy, they had thirty four people

528
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:22.960
at a game. Well yeah,
and there's a reason terrible team. YEP,

529
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:27.480
an owner who doesn't want to put
anything into it and then fans say

530
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:31.480
no, So maybe it's time that
we just end us. Yeah. Yeah,

531
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:37.599
it's sad though, as as a
fan of the expos, it is

532
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:42.800
sad, it really is. What's
not sad, Timmy, is Liam Hendricks

533
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:49.119
being cancer free. Yes, great
news there, and uh, you know

534
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:54.480
when I when I saw the when
they put them on the fifteen day instead

535
00:40:54.519 --> 00:41:00.440
of the sixty day, I l
I think that was our first tens.

536
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:05.280
And you know, the confirmation that
he's cancer free is such great news.

537
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:09.559
I think we will see Hendricks back
pitching middle middle end of May. I

538
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:14.440
agree, And that's that's awesome.
It's amazing. Yeah, and you know

539
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:19.280
what it on on a personal level, it is off the charts good for

540
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.639
the Chicago White Sox and baseball and
us in our fantasy game. It's also

541
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:27.199
very very good. I haven't been
a league, Timmy, and uh I've

542
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.840
got him into yeah, Labor,
I'm oh, good for you. I'm

543
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:32.920
I'm excited about him coming back.
Obviously very good pitch. I mean it,

544
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.440
you know, will he come back
well the way he was before?

545
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:38.599
I don't know him. I mean
we don't. We don't know. I

546
00:41:38.639 --> 00:41:43.400
mean, we're uncharted territory here,
so we don't know what. I'm assuming

547
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:45.679
he had chemotherapy. I think he
did, so we don't know what that

548
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:47.239
did. You know how much that
took out him. We just don't.

549
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:50.639
We have no idea, so we
just need to see what happens. But

550
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:54.480
it's it's great news. Yeah,
question number three, Yes, okay,

551
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:58.960
this is a quick one. So
Kyle Brady is pitch. Well, it

552
00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:01.039
was the National Timmy went six innings, five fits, no run, six

553
00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:06.559
strikeouts in a walk. Baseball Savant
data has always looked really good. Spin

554
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:10.599
rate is ticked up on Wednesday.
Fastball spin rate was twenty four thirteen.

555
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:14.719
As you know, that's really good. Curveball twenty five sixty two, a

556
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:20.039
slider twenty six eighteen. That's really
big stuff. Are you buying or staying

557
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:24.800
away until he faces a better team? Well, his next game is at

558
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:29.760
home against Boston. I'll take it. The only concern I have is if

559
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:35.079
Phil Cozy is I'm painting. Yeah, I thinktis. I think Bratish has

560
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.440
a chance to be a pretty good
pitcher. I've always been a little high

561
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.000
on him, even when was in
the minor leagues, So I mean that

562
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:45.599
that's really good stuff. He throws
hard, the ball is moving, He's

563
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:49.000
never had command of anything. He's
got a weird delivery. It's probably more

564
00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:52.960
of a relievered delivery. But I
don't know Tim. They want to make

565
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.480
it a starter. I'm not going
to put anything past the Orioles. I

566
00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:59.199
think that's a smart organization. Well, when you look at what's happening this

567
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:02.000
week, you'll look at how it
relates to the waiver wear. I like

568
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:07.920
British even more because so many people
are totally enamored with question for Mason Miller,

569
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:12.960
and they're going to be spending a
pile on Mason Miller. It might

570
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:16.960
be one of those weeks where you
can do very well by looking at other

571
00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:21.599
options, and I think British is
one of those options, and he will

572
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:23.760
be in my waiver wear. Mason
Miller is amazing to him. I mean

573
00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:30.199
this is I mean, I wrote
he broke baseball Savannah. They've never seen

574
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:35.039
that kind of stuff. I mean, it's it's one hundred mile average velocity

575
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:38.159
with crazy spin rates. It's the
ball is moving all over the place.

576
00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:43.199
And he pitched at least for four
innings. To him. He was dominant.

577
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:45.800
He got you know, maybe tired
at the fifth inning, but I

578
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:49.920
know people are going to be spending
a bundle. You've talked about him now

579
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.239
for several weeks. He got the
call. He's pitching well. But Timmy,

580
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:57.559
he's got two or three screws in
his elbow. He's had injuries on

581
00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.280
his shoulder. This is a guy
who's worked through diabet took diabetes. Yeah,

582
00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:06.440
I said, type one diabetics.
So this is a guy with like

583
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:10.159
red flashing lights on his health,
particularly with his elbow. He just he

584
00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:14.079
throws so hard and you don't get
that spin rate, Timmy, without a

585
00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:17.519
lot of torque in your arm.
So, you know, just everybody long

586
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:22.719
term and the Dynasty League just know
this that if he breaks down, it's

587
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:25.920
not going to be an unexpected thing. Well, no, and you know

588
00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:31.119
when when you look at you know, I started looking at him after he

589
00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:37.519
pitched the five inning. That five
inning, basically perfect game. Okay.

590
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:42.559
The only runner he allowed was on
a strikeout where the catcher didn't get the

591
00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:47.199
ball dropped a dropped Yeah, the
minor league game. Yeah, that's and

592
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:52.119
I started looking at the numbers and
the fact that he threw like a third

593
00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:55.000
of his pitches at one hundred miles
an hour plus and said, hey,

594
00:44:55.280 --> 00:45:00.559
look at the Oakland rotation. It's
absolutely terrible. Could they possibly look at

595
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:07.199
Miller? And they did so.
I certainly got lucky on that one,

596
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:14.119
But when you look at the overall
package, yeah, your warning is definitely

597
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:16.519
right bang on. And you know
what, You're gonna pay a fortune for

598
00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:20.639
this guy this week, and he's
not going to get your wins. He's

599
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:23.800
not going to get your quality starts. In all likelihood. If you're looking

600
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:27.960
for strikeoats, he's going to deliver
in the rara and the whip could be

601
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:30.400
decent. But you know, I
went to CBS. He won't be in

602
00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:36.199
my waiver wire article this week because
he's already up to fifty two percent roster

603
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:42.000
and CBS in a week. Timmy, he's amazing. He was drafted in

604
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:46.480
two thousand and twenty one, sou
part full, part of two thousand twenty

605
00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:51.119
one, all of twenty two and
twenty three. Yes, he's pitched twenty

606
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:57.000
eight innings. I know, yeah, you know I when when I hey,

607
00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.920
I've got Miller in a couple of
weeks, and I've I've got him

608
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:06.199
on on cheap bids. Okay,
that's awesome, ye, but am I

609
00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:09.719
gonna pay for Mason Miller? No, that's an entirely different kettle of fish.

610
00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:15.199
Twenty eight two thirds innings, fifty
three strikeouts, six walks. Yeah,

611
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:20.199
that's a that's a nine to one
strikeout to walk, right, And

612
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:24.000
I mean it's just nuts. It
is off the chart stuff. And maybe

613
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.119
the human body is not meant to
be able to throw that hard with that

614
00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:30.480
much stork on on his arm.
But I don't know, Timmy, It's

615
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:37.639
it's crazy stuff. Yeah. Again, just really really know your parameters before

616
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:45.000
you submit them a fab bid using
thirty percent of your budget. Totally agree,

617
00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:49.519
Totally agree. Let's see, let's
do a quick Garrett Mitchell. Then

618
00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.719
we'll take a break and then talk
about the pirates. So which is which

619
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.679
is crazy? He separated his shoulder, be out for a while. Joey

620
00:46:55.719 --> 00:47:00.639
wiemer gets gets a start. Timmy, it's been okay. Sixty two played

621
00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:04.239
appearance as a home run, two
stolen bases, only a two or four

622
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:07.960
batting average, but a decent one
base percentage at three or six hundred points.

623
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:12.000
On top of it, not much
slug. He's got the big speed,

624
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.920
just not hitting the ball with much
authority. Do you think he could

625
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:19.800
be an asset to your fantasy team? Yeah, in fifteen and twenty team

626
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:24.159
leagues. Yeah, because he's gonna
play and today the speed's real. He's

627
00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:28.719
gonna get you some stolen bases.
I think if you're looking at twelve team

628
00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:31.440
leagues, I think there's probably better
options. But in deeper leagues, yeah,

629
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:36.119
I think you'll be okay. I
don't like I don't like a swing,

630
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:39.239
so you know, you never have. I think we'll go get exposed.

631
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:43.599
I think he's a part time player, which brings me to the second

632
00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:45.960
point. South Frelick, who I
like a lot. It's not been playing

633
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:51.679
all that well, Timmy is if
is Frelick a possible option? Here is

634
00:47:51.719 --> 00:47:54.039
it's just let's let's go with Weimer. The Brewers is gonna go with Weemer

635
00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:59.639
until Garrett Mitchell is healed. Well, I don't know if they'll go with

636
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.039
Garrett Mitchell until I mean, I
don't mean, I don't think they'll go

637
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:07.480
with Joey Weemer until Garrett Mitchell is
healed, because that could be a while,

638
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:12.599
you know. But at the same
point in time, Milwaukee's winning,

639
00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:16.400
right now right, they're playing really
good baseball, so there's no rusher urgency

640
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:22.039
to move Freylake up. Okay,
I think eventually, yeah, Freylick's gonna

641
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:27.159
heat up and he's gonna get a
promotion and he'll own the job. But

642
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.440
I think they're gonna leave him in
Triple A until he does heat up because

643
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:36.440
there is no urgency at this point
in time. So my advice is,

644
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.760
if you have sel Freylake, especially
in a redraft league, if you've got

645
00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:45.000
him on your team, don't give
up on him. Definitely not hold him.

646
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.480
Exercise patients, and at some point
in time we will see him this

647
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:52.760
year. And when we do see
him, he's not gonna be up for

648
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:55.840
a week or two. He's gonna
be up for the he's gonna be up

649
00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:59.880
for the full Monty. He'll be
there for the balance of the year.

650
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:06.679
So exercise patience and just just hold
on. We'll see self, like I

651
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.960
have no doubt. Okay, Well, somebody's gonna be naked here soon,

652
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:12.639
that's what tim just said. When
we get back, we're gonna find out

653
00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:24.320
who that is. And talking about
the Pittsburgh Pirates, Timmy, you know,

654
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:30.280
look, let's face it, the
Pittsburgh Pirates have been aren't kicking child

655
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:34.920
for many many years. Yeah,
it's not a very good it's easy to

656
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:38.440
do. Yeah, yeah, it's
easy. I'm not looking at their win

657
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:44.079
loss, right, got I gotta
sneeze here, Timmy, Okay, bless

658
00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:49.039
you. Okay, sorry about that
rebinding. I hope you didn't hear that.

659
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:54.360
So oh you did? Okay,
well hopefully, Oh dear, Oh

660
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:59.239
I tried to anyway, I don't
I don't know what the record is.

661
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:00.400
I'm gonna have in a front to
me. I think it was like thirteen

662
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:05.199
and seven is something like that,
which I don't know what the last time

663
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:07.639
they've been this far, or five
hundred in the late part of April.

664
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:14.719
But it's it's not a typical thing. Uh No, it's definitely not a

665
00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:19.960
typical thing. And right right now
they're thirteen and seven. They're a game

666
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:25.400
and a half behind the Milwaukee Brewers
at fourteen and five, and everybody's consensus

667
00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:31.119
easy march to a victory. Saint
Louis Cardinals are eight and eleven, the

668
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:35.280
Cubs are eleven and seven. Yeah, we'll talk about the Cubs movie next

669
00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:38.599
week, Tim, But yeah,
they started to run oddly enough with O'Neil

670
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:43.280
Cruz, who you know is the
most famous player, the most exciting player,

671
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:46.639
is the best player probably Brian Reynolds
is. But I mean that's when

672
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:51.639
they started their run. It's kind
of weird. Yeah, it's it's kind

673
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:55.199
of totally it's it's almost like it's
so Pittsburgh, right, yeah, yeah,

674
00:50:55.639 --> 00:51:00.760
just when you know it's time to
time to kick him again because they

675
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:04.199
lost. I mean, they're gonna
be dreadful. They're actually playing well.

676
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:07.519
A lot of it is fueled by
pitching, by pitching, and the top

677
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:13.280
of the order, you know,
Ryan Hayes, Reynolds, Andrew McCutcheon.

678
00:51:14.360 --> 00:51:19.239
Uh, one of my my,
hey my recommended weaver wire bat this week

679
00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:23.880
is currently hitting fifth in that in
that order, and then they're getting pitching,

680
00:51:24.159 --> 00:51:28.639
and you know, hey, Bay
is playing great in the second base.

681
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:34.519
He's been a huge asset in fantasy
leagues. You know, Castro starting

682
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:38.480
to show some life. I might
have cut him too early in labor.

683
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:43.559
But yeah, the Pirates are playing
well, they really are. Yeah,

684
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.079
keep Bryant hay Simmy is is.
That's a good player and a guy that

685
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:51.440
they gave a lot of money to
which the Pirates don't happens. He might

686
00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:53.679
be the best third baseman in the
game, and that's including Matt Chapman.

687
00:51:53.719 --> 00:51:58.880
It's a great defender. I don't
know if you've ever just a chance to

688
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:00.960
watch him, he just it's just
a vacuum over there. It's impressive.

689
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:07.360
But he's he's playing extremely well.
Andrew McCutcheon, as you said, has

690
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:12.400
shown life and Brian Reynolds is their
best player. Jack Zewinski's thought, okay

691
00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:15.159
too, And yeah, he's hitting
the ball a mile, you know,

692
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:17.679
and you look at pitching, pitching, and that's that's where it's been.

693
00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:23.320
Well. You know, Ron Sneak
contres got off to a really poor start,

694
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:29.679
but in his past two games he
has looked really, really good.

695
00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:32.880
He shut the Cards down this last
game this week. I think he yellowed

696
00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:38.639
just one ear and run. If
Contreras is out there, uh give him

697
00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:42.559
a look. You gotta get you
gotta get him rostered. He's hot right

698
00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:46.519
now, pitching very well. And
uh you know, hey, me and

699
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:50.920
the Pirates are playing good baseball.
I took my cap to them. Yeah,

700
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:52.800
Ron, Rons and he's got a
four fifteen ear eight. But as

701
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:58.679
you said, it's it's uh been
the last two starts, especially yesterday's was

702
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:04.679
very good. So uh and a
guy Ovieta is playing, he's pitching very

703
00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.440
well. That's been the guy that's
been very impressive. Can he keep that

704
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:13.079
up? Well? If I'm not
mistaken? Wasn't he a? He's still

705
00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:15.199
fairly young. He's only twenty five? I think twenty four, twenty five.

706
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:21.920
He was a fairly highly touted prospect
in the Cardinals system, wasn't he?

707
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:25.880
Yes, big arm could ever throw
strikes? Right? Well, he's

708
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:31.280
throwing strikes, so it's not as
if it's coming out of nowhere. Good

709
00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:37.559
acquisition by the pirates, you know, Mitch Keller, Alaska's yeah, Hey,

710
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:40.679
not household names, but they're pitching
well, and they're getting the job

711
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:46.159
done and keeping them in games,
and the offenses enough and more than enough

712
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:51.639
in a lot of cases. You
get to the bullpen and you got Underwood

713
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:55.159
and Olderman and David Bedner's as good
as anybody in the game right now,

714
00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:59.880
isn't he. Yeah, let's let's
go back to Avita. Yes, you're

715
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:04.480
you're correct. Came up through the
Cardinals organization, signed as a sixteen year

716
00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:08.920
old out of Venezuela, out of
Cuba, Cuba, kid, I'm looking

717
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:14.079
here's some walks per nine back in
the minor leagues five point one, four

718
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:16.760
point eight, five point three,
four or four point one. Last year

719
00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:22.800
at Pittsburgh, timmy thirty endings a
four point seven. So this two point

720
00:54:22.960 --> 00:54:28.400
nine six, you know, is
interesting. You know where did that come

721
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:30.599
from? So we probably need to
dig in a little bit there. But

722
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:34.880
I mean striking out over a batter
and ending a less than three per ninth

723
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:38.679
three walks per nine everybody is average
control, so he's a little bit better

724
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:42.079
than that. And in fact,
if he only has average control with this

725
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:45.400
stuff, it's going to be a
really good pitcher. So well, yeah,

726
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:49.800
I think in dynasty leagues, I
think there's something there. Yep,

727
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:53.480
agree, something very good there.
So do they finish over five hundred or

728
00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:58.960
is this just a hot stretch they're
going through. I think there are I

729
00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:07.360
think they're four eighty type team that
is playing extremely well right now. Uh,

730
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.440
their pitching can hold up, Tim, if their pitching can hold up,

731
00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:14.480
Yeah, there are five. Alaska's
is been really good out that good

732
00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:17.840
buddy. Yeah. If Contreras and
n Avieto are the real we a long

733
00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:21.760
believe that Mitch Keller would start to
step it up. He's starting to do

734
00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:25.000
that a little bit. That's three
pretty good pitchers. Well yeah, but

735
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:29.119
again, you gotta in the back
of your mind, you gotta think it's

736
00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:32.840
Pittsburgh, right, So they'll trade
David Bedner at the deadline, no,

737
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:37.800
or Reynolds, or they'll they'll do
with you know what I mean, they'll

738
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:42.599
do at some point in time what
Pittsburgh does. Oh okay, which means

739
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:45.960
yeah, they might be a five
five hundred team. They're not gonna go

740
00:55:46.119 --> 00:55:50.599
old. Uh, They're not going
to go out and sign anybody at the

741
00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:52.880
deadline. If they're ten games over
five hundred in the middle of July,

742
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:58.320
are they now? Yeah? The
history would say, history would say no.

743
00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:01.559
Yeah. Yeah. So again,
how good can they be? I

744
00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:08.519
think right now is about as good
as they will be all season. This

745
00:56:08.639 --> 00:56:12.800
is it, and it's gets good. It's great to see. Yeah,

746
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:15.519
well they've got they've got a pretty
decent minor league system. So you can

747
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:22.280
see Priestrup pretty soon as well.
So you know, it's I it feels

748
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:25.320
a bit a bit of a turn
here, particularly if Keith Brian Hayes is

749
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:29.480
starting to share the real deal.
They'll get a Neil Cruise back at some

750
00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:34.480
point later in the season, definitely
for next year. It seems like some

751
00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:37.360
building blocks finally in Pittsburgh to me. I mean, it might not amount

752
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:42.280
to anything, but these are players
that maybe you can look and go,

753
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:47.880
well you can actually play. Yeah
again, it's it's optimism. Well we'll

754
00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:54.400
see. Hopefully Bob Nutting doesn't do
anything to destroy that optimism. Timmy,

755
00:56:54.480 --> 00:57:00.440
Let's move on. Um I have
when we talk about or sleepers, I

756
00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:01.559
got some, I'm right, got
some, I'm wrong. And that guy

757
00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:05.599
so far, I've been dead wrong
about it. That s Anthony Rondade.

758
00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:08.199
Yeah, he's hitting like two ninety. There's no power, there's no speed,

759
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:14.760
there's climbing in the stands and grabbing
people and all that kind of nonsense.

760
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:17.039
I've been wrong on him, Timmy. Who is the guy you have

761
00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:22.119
not felt good about that you recommended
this year. Well, we're not gonna

762
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:27.519
have to talk long about this because
we already have Gunner Henderson. He concerns

763
00:57:27.559 --> 00:57:30.239
me in a big, big way. You're looking at a fifty sixth round

764
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:35.599
pick and he's not delivering. I
don't I don't like what I'm seeing.

765
00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:39.039
And because we you know, we
expanded on that a little earlier. I

766
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:44.159
think it's much much to say that
it hasn't been said. But I've got

767
00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:49.000
Gunner Henderson and a couple of redraft
leaks, and he's not helping me.

768
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:51.519
Yeah, you can't. You can't
start him, Timmy. It's it's just

769
00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:53.280
it's time toime. I have no
choice. I have no choice. Oh

770
00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:59.280
yeah, now that's what was he
playing? Third base? Yep, that's

771
00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:00.559
the one. Yeah, well,
yeah, you're right. I mean,

772
00:58:00.639 --> 00:58:06.480
so two third basements him we got
wrong. And that's already a shallow that's

773
00:58:06.480 --> 00:58:08.000
already a shallow position to begin with. You. I mean, look,

774
00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:14.039
I saw Gunner Hinderson play a lot
in the minor leagues. I still love

775
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:17.679
the player, Timmy. If you
told me Monday he's back in the minor

776
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:22.840
leagues, it would not shock me. Yeah. And if you told me

777
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:25.719
at the same point in time,
by next Friday he has four home runs

778
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:30.159
in twelve RBIs, I wouldn't drug
me either, because he's got he's got

779
00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:34.360
the skull to do it. I
don't know what the heck has happened with

780
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.880
his approach today. I don't understand. Maybe the game has gotten to him

781
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:40.960
a little bit, and he is
just you know, just up there.

782
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:45.920
You know it's afraid to swing happens. Yeah, so yeah, don't want

783
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:50.639
to make a mistake. That's that's
that's always a bit in life, tim

784
00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:53.840
You have to be willing to make
mistakes, otherwise you won't get anything done.

785
00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:59.280
Yeah. Well I was gonna say, yeah, you can't live on

786
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:01.800
the edge forever. Falling off is
better than just standing there watching and go

787
00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:07.559
by. Right. Another guy that
I didn't recommend. I actually drafted him

788
00:59:07.599 --> 00:59:09.000
in your twenty team league, Timmy, just because I got caught out with

789
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:14.280
shortstopping I was when I picked him. I'm going, he can't be as

790
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:16.719
bad as he was last year.
It just it just can't be. Yet

791
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:21.880
he was such a fantasy darling for
so many years. He's not that old.

792
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:24.280
And this is Hobby or Bay as
Tim. But let me give you

793
00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:28.920
his stat line. This was before
yesterday's game. If they played, he's

794
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:32.119
hitting one ninety seven. There are
no home runs, there are no stolen

795
00:59:32.239 --> 00:59:36.960
bases, and oh yeah he got
benched for lack of hustle. Actually it

796
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:39.920
wasn't hustle. It was forgetting how
many outs there were and just like completely

797
00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:44.920
not paying attention in the game.
I mean, it is a fricking disaster

798
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:47.639
with Hobby bay As. My question
is do you drop him? Is he

799
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:51.559
droppable at this point or is it
like Hobby bay As, you can't drop

800
00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:55.119
him? Well, I think I
think he's droppable, But you gotta have

801
00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:58.880
some you had have an option to
pick up to replace him, right,

802
00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:02.480
I'm sure can find somebody who's batting
better than one ninety seven with a home

803
01:00:02.559 --> 01:00:07.400
run or a stolen base. Drop
him if you're gonna buy somebody better.

804
01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:12.840
Yeah, you have my blessing.
I mean, this is Jackie Bradley Junior,

805
01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:15.880
bad Timmy remember, and he was
always the last guy on the face.

806
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:20.280
I mean, this is terrible.
I mean, what the hell has

807
01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:23.119
happened? Yeah? You know yo
who he reminds me of. I'm having

808
01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:27.679
a brain cramp here because I can't
remember his name. I'll remember as soon

809
01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:30.800
as we get off the air.
I believe he's with Minneso. Oh Carlos,

810
01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:37.519
Oh, this is Carlos Gomez Part
two day. You know that's a

811
01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:43.000
great comp I'm gonna I'm gonna tell
you why. Carlos Gomez. Terrible approach,

812
01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:49.039
it tremendous bat speed, tremendous athleticism, the bats, he started to

813
01:00:49.079 --> 01:00:53.880
slow down just a smidge and he
was done. And Tavy bayas great bat

814
01:00:53.960 --> 01:00:59.559
speed, incredibly athletic, same profile, terrible approach, and those guys have

815
01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:04.320
short careers. I think that's a
great comp Yeah. And you know in

816
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:09.159
Milwaukee he had some absolutely great two
or three peaked seasons to me that were

817
01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:15.079
phenomenal. Yeah, and then he
went from you know, nineteen homers,

818
01:01:15.119 --> 01:01:22.960
twenty four, twenty three, twelve, let me see here, twelve to

819
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:27.559
five to eight, a little bit
of life in Texas with seventeen. But

820
01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:31.679
once once at bass speed. Once
it took a dip. Once It's yeah,

821
01:01:31.719 --> 01:01:35.039
it took a dip. Yeah,
it was. It was done.

822
01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:37.599
You know, he's only thirty seven
years old, Carlos Gomez, Yeah,

823
01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:42.280
yeah, yeah, and he's been
out of the game since, oh,

824
01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:47.119
twenty nineteen, four years ago,
so he was done at thirty three.

825
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:52.480
Basically, he was done at about
twenty eight twenty nine. And I really

826
01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:57.440
see, I really see a comp
between him and Bias. I think that's

827
01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:00.760
a great cop of one I was
not thinking about. But Timmy approach matters.

828
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:04.519
That's why I preach it. I
mean it's like, you know,

829
01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:07.079
particularly guys with great bat speed,
they get older, Timmy, it slows

830
01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:12.639
down. And I'm sure he's not
motivated in Detroit. It's a bad team.

831
01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:15.360
Yeah, and he's the big dog
there. They paid him a lot

832
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:19.920
of money to come in and he
is actually what the bet and maybe that's

833
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:25.079
feeding on itself, Timmy. Well, you know what, there's there's only

834
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:31.400
one. There's only one Guerrero Senior, right, Betting on another one is

835
01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:35.480
asking a lot? Right. Yeah, Now he would, he would,

836
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:39.320
he would hit everything and anything.
But that's such a rarity, it really

837
01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:44.199
is. Well it's great I hand
coordination. It's like you know, it's

838
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:47.760
those are all outliers and Harby bias
outlier was his bat speed. I mean

839
01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:52.719
it was crazy, Yeah, exactly, he and Gary Sheffield. I mean

840
01:02:52.119 --> 01:02:55.360
those are the comps. And you
don't caught many people's bat speed to those

841
01:02:55.400 --> 01:03:00.280
two cats. And uh, and
you know, it's just it's a it's

842
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:02.480
a shame to him because that was
an exciting player for several years. And

843
01:03:04.519 --> 01:03:07.760
yeah, it's man battled me for
grabbing us my short so I gotta find

844
01:03:07.800 --> 01:03:12.199
somebody else. I can't contendue with
this. No, Well, babe.

845
01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:15.519
There should be hopefully somebody out there
pick up you know who. He doesn't

846
01:03:15.519 --> 01:03:19.880
have the numbers yet to show for
it, but I've watched him a couple

847
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:22.840
of times now and then. This
kid is a good player, and he's

848
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:29.079
going to be I think, a
really good player a year or two down

849
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:34.159
the road. Nuts a nettle kid
in Anaheim. Oh, Zach mat Yeah,

850
01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:37.480
for sure. He Yeah, if
he's out there somewhere, give him,

851
01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:42.559
give him a look over by as
I like what I'm seeing at the

852
01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:46.920
plate. But the glove man,
he's gonna be a good player, he

853
01:03:47.079 --> 01:03:52.239
really, Yes, I think he's
up for the duration. I would hope.

854
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:57.000
So, I mean he's he's not
hit much, but unless we talked

855
01:03:57.000 --> 01:04:00.400
about on the last podcast, I
mean they're they're good at bats. Uh,

856
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:02.079
he's gonna be a good player.
It's a good two striker party.

857
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:05.639
I'm looking all right here. I
am Timmy. I'm on your twenty team

858
01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:12.840
site. These are my possible replacements. Okay, HAROLDO Perdoma, who's playing

859
01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:16.599
really well, get him, go
get him, John Birdie, John Birdie,

860
01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:20.400
and I think I'll pass JP Crawford. It's not a good player,

861
01:04:20.519 --> 01:04:26.239
but yeah, I mean it's I
don't know, he's better than Hobby Bayaz,

862
01:04:26.599 --> 01:04:29.920
Josie Berrera starting to actually show some
signs of life. Yeah, he's

863
01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:33.480
doing Yeah, Lewis Rahifo. I
probably pass on him because it looks like

864
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:39.360
he might be a part time player. But yeah, yeah, but I

865
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:43.719
mean there's there's but I don't know. Tim, it's it's not I got,

866
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:49.599
I got, I'm done. I'm
nice to pick him up off the

867
01:04:49.639 --> 01:04:54.679
waiver wire. I want to.
I want to play zero point zero,

868
01:04:54.760 --> 01:05:00.920
but it's left for um for Japanese
or Asian players. But Tim Tobby bayas

869
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:04.239
zero point zero. It's it's zero
home runs, a zero stolen basis.

870
01:05:04.320 --> 01:05:09.000
There you go. If the zero
fits, wear it the tay final,

871
01:05:09.119 --> 01:05:25.400
break it back. Let's see you're
picking up this weekend? Okay prompt two

872
01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:30.719
kind of questions and discussion. So
we were five minutes over over time here,

873
01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:33.199
but not not too bad. No, I'm impressed. I figured after

874
01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:38.360
it took us forty minutes to get
through the first question, we'd be struggling.

875
01:05:38.519 --> 01:05:40.599
But no, it worked out well
at the end. All right,

876
01:05:40.719 --> 01:05:44.880
what one hitter are you gonna be
targeting this Sunday? Well, again,

877
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:50.760
I don't very often look to the
Pittsburgh Pirates for anything. But g Man

878
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:58.119
Troy is gonna miss eight weeks with
eleft achilles strain, and I think it's

879
01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:04.360
time to give you a Joe,
your average Joe. Joe. Look,

880
01:06:05.400 --> 01:06:10.480
he's gonna play full time. Pirates
are playing well, he's playing well.

881
01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:17.440
Uh five percent rosters the CBS h
Connor Joe gets my boat for the hitter.

882
01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:20.679
Well, he's got some Asian ancestry, and it to me he's from

883
01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:25.679
Hawaii. So that's probably another reason
that you like him. But another reason

884
01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:29.639
for use you to use zero play
zero. Yeah, I think I think

885
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:31.440
he's I think he's a part time
player, but I think you could do

886
01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:35.840
a lot worse. Hobby pie as
comes to mind, any Rendon comes to

887
01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:40.159
mind, Well, I think he's
a full time player for the next two

888
01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:45.159
months. Totally agree. And his
first base outfield eligible. And you know

889
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:47.679
what, I got a couple of
weeks where I got Brandon Belt sitting there.

890
01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:53.280
We'll talk about zero point zero,
and I'm ready to move on from

891
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.559
Brandon Belt. We're heading in the
last week of April, and you know

892
01:06:57.639 --> 01:07:00.599
what, I'm gonna miss his one
or two hot streaks this year, but

893
01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:08.639
I think I'll look at the option
of consistent play at maybe a lower level.

894
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:11.000
How's that sound. Yeah, it's
just terrible to me. I mean

895
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:14.599
he is, yeah, absolutely brutal. And I thought he was done.

896
01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:16.599
I thought it was not a few
years ago. But I was surprised he

897
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:20.159
got a big contract. I think
that was a mistake signed by the Blue

898
01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:24.880
Jays, I'm afraid. So.
Yeah, I like what they attempted to

899
01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:28.360
do. It just hasn't worked out
thus far. Yep, I agree,

900
01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:31.800
I mean, I agree anyway,
he might be done. Okay, what's

901
01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:35.960
the one pitcher are you targeting for
this Sunday? Well, you nailed most

902
01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:41.239
of my waiver wire did in the
question in the questions, Kyle Bridge,

903
01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:45.239
He's definitely in there. I'm gonna
put Mason Miller in there, even though

904
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.880
he's marginally over fifty percent, just
as a reminder because he won't be at

905
01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:54.800
that level and ESPN leagues yet.
Uh Ronsnee contraris. But the guy that

906
01:07:55.320 --> 01:07:59.280
I want to mention right now is
a guy that's a setup guy, but

907
01:07:59.440 --> 01:08:02.960
he keeps getting saves, and when
he's not getting saves, he's getting holds

908
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:06.039
and he's rostered to the two in
the twenty seven percent, and that's Jose

909
01:08:06.239 --> 01:08:12.760
Cajeta in Anaheim. I think it's
Kihata. He had a yeah, yeah,

910
01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:15.159
he's now up to three saves.
He got another one this week.

911
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:17.319
I had him roster and I think
in every dining sit league and I don't

912
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:20.520
known him anymore, so I'm really
pissed off about that. I agree,

913
01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:26.760
I agree to Yeah. I think
it's I think it's time that everybody,

914
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:30.840
you know, it looks like Anaheim, even though they you know, they

915
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:35.159
have asked of as as there supposed
closer, it looks very much like a

916
01:08:35.239 --> 01:08:41.560
committee to me. And with three
saves early pitching, well, I think

917
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.399
you get a guy there that could
by the end of the year even as

918
01:08:44.479 --> 01:08:47.760
the supposed set up guy, I
end up with ten twelve saves that counts.

919
01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.159
Yeah, I agreed, Yeah,
Timmy, that is a rap,

920
01:08:51.279 --> 01:08:55.960
my friend, great stuff. I
f that was a lot of fun today.

921
01:08:56.039 --> 01:09:00.279
We moved back on Sunday with your
waiver wire and lots of others stuff.

922
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:04.319
It sounds good because I think my
waiver wire is going to start It's

923
01:09:04.359 --> 01:09:09.520
gonna start becoming a little more reasonable
now as we move into May. And

924
01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:14.479
I don't think you'll see too many
where there's twenty five names on it anymore.

925
01:09:14.600 --> 01:09:16.560
So that gives us more time for
stuff. Right there you go,

926
01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:20.640
Timmy good stuff. Everybody, enjoy
your week and Tim, good luck with

927
01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:24.159
all your teams. Everybody else,
good luck with all your teams. Unless

928
01:09:24.159 --> 01:09:27.600
you play with me, then I
hope you have a down weekend. How

929
01:09:27.600 --> 01:09:30.119
about that today? Sending bad vibes. So all those people in front of

930
01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:32.479
me, all those people in front
of me in d L five, which

931
01:09:32.680 --> 01:09:36.279
is like five people, and have
a good team. Everybody is. It

932
01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:40.399
seems like everybody's doing well in that
league. So I know that's not true,

933
01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:44.159
but a lot of people with triple
digits in that league at the moment.

934
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:48.359
Yeah, I think we're sitting somewhere
around fourth or so. And yeah,

935
01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:51.079
there's there's a lot of teams in
the Hunts and I think it's gonna

936
01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:56.479
stay that way for a while because
all of us are dealing with some sort

937
01:09:56.520 --> 01:10:00.520
of injury, melody or pitching for
pitching challenges, and it'll keep the lead

938
01:10:00.640 --> 01:10:04.119
close up top. Well, I
think it'll keep a lot of Dynasty leagues

939
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:11.199
close up top this year because we're
seeing a lot of the unexpected and what's

940
01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:15.840
down is up and vice versa,
and that allows for opportunities again. Everybody

941
01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:19.199
join us over at Patreon, pat
rio n dot com, Forward slash Prospect

942
01:10:19.239 --> 01:10:23.119
three sixty one. It's five bucks
a month. I know people hate paying

943
01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:26.279
their hard earn moneys. I take. I hate taking your hard earn money

944
01:10:26.359 --> 01:10:29.199
as well, but I think it's
it's worth it. Tim, You're having

945
01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:30.880
a lot of fun over there.
If you like Dynasty Leagues, it's a

946
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:33.840
place to be, and there'll be
some other fantasy stuff there too. We're

947
01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:38.600
gonnaet Tim more heavily involved here in
the next in the coming weeks, and

948
01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:42.000
it'll be I think it's going to
be a good place for a nice little

949
01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:46.119
community that we can establish there.
Yeah, I'm really looking forward to helping

950
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:49.600
out in any way. I can. You know the video thing, well,

951
01:10:49.720 --> 01:10:53.359
that's that might be hard to take, but there's got to be a

952
01:10:53.399 --> 01:10:57.640
paper bag I can wear that will
make things well. I'll give you.

953
01:10:57.800 --> 01:11:00.119
I can give you access and you
could do your lord to have to explain

954
01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:05.000
to you how to use the screen
cast out of that hot damn you you

955
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:10.520
after thirteen years at some point in
time, control damn, it would be

956
01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:14.399
mine. I actually I actually put
my little I have my little my face,

957
01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:17.680
my head in the lower right hand
corner, Timmy So. And I

958
01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:20.479
forgot to shave the first time I
did it, that was pretty embarrassing.

959
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:28.319
But so I forgot to shave starting
in about nineteen seventy eight. I've got

960
01:11:28.399 --> 01:11:30.800
my I got my grandfather glasses on
two, Timmy So, I got reading

961
01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:34.840
glasses. Like I just can't read
anymore without my glasses, and it makes

962
01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:40.760
me look about fifteen years older as
well. So I mean distinguished, distinguished.

963
01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:43.960
Yeah, I know, but I
have to wear them. I can't.

964
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.199
I literally can't see anymore. I
cannot read. So anyway, it

965
01:11:47.319 --> 01:11:49.039
is a rout, my friend,
I will talk to you on Sunday.

966
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:53.560
Yeah, a good weekend. We'll
catch you on Sunday,